Panel

CfP for pan­el on „Car­cino­gen­e­sis, Tox­i­c­i­ty and the Epi­dem­ic of Cancer”
Health, Envi­ron­ment and Anthro­pol­o­gy (HEAT) Con­fer­ence at Durham University
23–24 April 2025
Dead­line 13th of January

If you would like to join the pan­el, please sub­mit an abstract of 250 words via the Abstract Man­age­ment por­tal.

CFP: Car­cino­gen­e­sis, Tox­i­c­i­ty and the Epi­dem­ic of Cancer

The cli­mat­ic and envi­ron­men­tal changes brought about by the forces of indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion, cap­i­tal­ism, empire, and glob­al ‘devel­op­ment’ are becom­ing increas­ing­ly vis­i­ble. But vital too are changes wrought that are less vis­i­ble – the chem­i­cal alter­ations induced in water, soil, air, crops, ani­mal and human bod­ies that are hav­ing pro­found effects on health and well­be­ing. Respon­si­bil­i­ty and con­se­quences are dis­trib­uted in deeply unequal ways (Choy 2016). In this pan­el we focus specif­i­cal­ly on the car­cino­genic effects of this tox­i­c­i­ty. While sci­en­tif­ic inves­ti­ga­tion into links between indus­tri­al envi­ron­men­tal con­t­a­m­i­na­tion and car­cino­gen­e­sis has been under­de­vel­oped in favour of that which fore­grounds per­son­al agency and indi­vid­ual choice, a grow­ing body of anthro­po­log­i­cal schol­ar­ship has begun to reori­ent this research agen­da. Draw­ing on exam­ples such as peanut pro­duc­tion in Sene­gal (Tou­sig­nant 2022), open-pit min­ing in Spain (Fer­nán­dez-Navar­ro et al., 2012), nuclear waste dis­pos­al in the USA (Cram 2023 & Mas­co 2021), and agri­cul­tur­al pes­ti­cide use in Kenya (Prince 2021), schol­ars have start­ed to probe the con­nec­tions between cor­po­rate and indus­tri­al inter­ests and the ‘epi­dem­ic’ of can­cer, in an effort to think through the rela­tion­ship between the liv­ing and its milieu in nov­el ways (Can­guil­hem 2001). We invite papers that advance these analy­ses of ‘car­cino­genic account­abil­i­ty’, and exam­ine how risks of car­cino­genic expo­sure are made vis­i­ble and invis­i­ble, embraced and resist­ed, and stud­ied. We are par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in research which under­takes semi­otic and mate­r­i­al cul­tur­al analy­ses of the fol­low­ing con­cepts: ‘exposed’, ‘tox­ic’, ‘safe’, ‘car­cino­genic’, and/or inter­ro­gate the eth­i­cal, epis­temic, and reg­u­la­to­ry con­junc­tures with­in which these cat­e­gories operate. 

You do not have to be an RAI or ASA mem­ber to pro­pose a paper. 

Pro­pos­als should con­sist of: 

- The title of the panel
– The title of the paper you wish to present
– An abstract of no more than 250 words. 

Paper pro­pos­als must be sub­mit­ted via the sub­mis­sion sys­tem and will be reviewed by pan­el convenors. 

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CfP for a pan­el on “Influ­ence of Chang­ing Ecolo­gies on Health and Human Adap­ta­tion at Local, Nation­al and Glob­al level”
Health, Envi­ron­ment and Anthro­pol­o­gy (HEAT) 2025 Conference
Durham Uni­ver­si­ty, (UK)
April 23–24, 2025

Pan­el Abstract:
In Anthro­pol­o­gy, research on inter­ac­tions and the com­plex net­work of humans, health and envi­ron­ment start­ed ear­ly with the cul­tur­al ecol­o­gy the­o­ry and med­ical anthro­pol­o­gy in the 1930s and 1960s respec­tive­ly. The focus theme of these approach­es had been adap­ta­tion includ­ing fac­tors of genet­ics, phys­i­ol­o­gy, cul­ture and the approach­es assumed that health is deter­mined by envi­ron­men­tal adap­ta­tion and that dis­eases arise from envi­ron­men­tal imbal­ances. Fur­ther stud­ies are required to under­stand the con­sump­tion pat­terns which are asso­ci­at­ed with health risks affect­ing human biol­o­gy, ecol­o­gy and the epi­demi­ol­o­gy of emerg­ing and reemerg­ing dis­eases. As researchers, the press­ing ques­tion is the present sce­nario of region­al, nation­al and glob­al affairs such as cli­mate change, food inse­cu­ri­ty, envi­ron­men­tal health, demo­graph­ic shifts, etc. Though there are ongo­ing con­sis­tent efforts to iden­ti­fy strate­gies and bring out solu­tions, yet, it requires exten­sive stud­ies on eco­log­i­cal changes and the asso­ci­at­ed health dis­par­i­ties. With this back­drop, the pan­el invites papers/studies con­duct­ed with­in (but not lim­it­ed to) South Asia to explore the cross-cul­tur­al impact of eco­log­i­cal changes on pop­u­la­tions. It seeks to high­light health dis­par­i­ties aris­ing from these changes and have an in-depth dis­cus­sion on region­al-spe­cif­ic health impli­ca­tions, as well as include trends in research method­ol­o­gy. The pan­el, in con­clu­sion, will be address­ing the ‘Ecol­o­gy-Human Adap­ta­tion Imbal­ance’ and will try to iden­ti­fy the loop­holes and bring out prob­a­ble alter­na­tives for region-spe­cif­ic populations.

The pan­el will explore the extent to which chang­ing envi­ron­men­tal con­di­tions bring about adverse health con­se­quences and adap­tive imbal­ance under var­i­ous eco­log­i­cal con­di­tions. The pan­el invites papers on the theme of ‘Ecol­o­gy-Human Adap­ta­tion Imbal­ance’ in the con­text of the fol­low­ing areas:

Tra­di­tion­al and mar­gin­alised communities.
Urban ecology.
Food environment.
Demog­ra­phy and access to Pub­lic Health.
Age­ing and Envi­ron­ment Interaction
Adap­ta­tion to eco­log­i­cal vulnerabilities.

You can sub­mit your abstracts in the Abstract Man­age­ment Por­tal on or before 13 Jan­u­ary 2025. The abstract should not be more than 250 words and the above link pro­vides fur­ther infor­ma­tion on the process of abstract submission.
All papers must be sub­mit­ted via the sub­mis­sion point on the con­fer­ence web­site (below). This should be uploaded in .doc or .pdf for­mat. Pro­pos­als must con­sist of:

Title of the pan­el you wish join;
The title of the paper you wish to present;
An abstract of no more than 250 words.

Paper pro­pos­als will be reviewed by pan­el convenor(s) and a deci­sion on whether the paper has been accept­ed or reject­ed will come from them.
Only papers sub­mit­ted via the link below will be con­sid­ered by pan­el convenors.
Web­site Link- Event Durham – Abstract Management 

Rules
You do not have to be an RAI or ASA mem­ber to pro­pose a paper.
You may only present once at the con­fer­ence. Pan­el chairs and dis­cus­sants may also present a paper on a dif­fer­ent panel.
All those attend­ing the con­fer­ence, includ­ing dis­cus­sants and chairs, will need to reg­is­ter and pay to attend.
For any query, kind­ly con­tact us at:- karvileena@gauhati.ac.in

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CfP for Pan­el: „Liveli­hoods under pres­sure: Vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty, adap­ta­tion, and resilience in devel­op­men­tal contexts”
Health Envi­ron­ment and Anthro­pol­o­gy (HEAt) con­fer­ence in Durham
23 April–24 April 2025

The call for abstracts is open until 13 January
We invite paper abstracts of 250 words for our panel

Abstract:
This pan­el con­sid­ers liveli­hoods at the inter­sec­tions of cli­mate change, envi­ron­men­tal degra­da­tion, and glob­al health crises. We aim to fos­ter dia­logue between med­ical, envi­ron­men­tal and devel­op­ment anthro­pol­o­gy by tak­ing a bot­tom-up, ethno­graph­ic view on chang­ing liveli­hoods whilst crit­i­cal­ly engag­ing with devel­op­men­tal con­cepts of liveli­hood diver­si­fi­ca­tion, sus­tain­able liveli­hoods, and alter­na­tive liveli­hoods in a world where cli­mate change adds new pres­sures as peo­ple strug­gle to get by.

Peo­ple around the world are trou­bled by cli­mate change, but many com­mu­ni­ties in the Glob­al South are dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly affect­ed by the con­ver­gence of emerg­ing envi­ron­men­tal and health chal­lenges with long-stand­ing socioe­co­nom­ic vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties. They are also more com­mon­ly the tar­gets of devel­op­ment projects that aim to encour­age par­tic­u­lar kinds of liveli­hood tran­si­tion. Such com­mu­ni­ties have often relied on nat­ur­al resource-depen­dent liveli­hoods that are increas­ing­ly threat­ened by cli­mate change, bio­di­ver­si­ty loss, and ecosys­tem degra­da­tion, and which may also pose height­ened risks of emerg­ing infec­tious dis­eases. How­ev­er, often they also dis­play tremen­dous agency and inno­va­tion in the face of these inter­con­nect­ed chal­lenges. By cen­tring our pan­el on liveli­hood strate­gies, and how these take place with­in, in con­ver­sa­tion with, and beyond devel­op­men­tal fram­ings, this pan­el will explore the lived expe­ri­ences of those most affect­ed by these plan­e­tary changes.

By exam­in­ing diverse case stud­ies from around the world, we aim to illu­mi­nate the ways in which com­mu­ni­ties are nav­i­gat­ing, adapt­ing to, and resist­ing the impacts of glob­al cli­mate change on their liveli­hoods and well­be­ing. We also seek ethno­graph­ic insights into how pro­grammes aim­ing to sup­port liveli­hoods are received or reworked on the ground. 

Please email to hannah.brown@DURHAM.AC.UK if you have any ques­tions. Pan­el abstracts must be sub­mit­ted via the con­fer­ence man­age­ment sys­tem.

Best wish­es,
Hannah

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Invi­ta­tion to the ‚More-than-human health in an inter­de­pen­dent world’ panel
Health, Envi­ron­ment, and Anthro­pol­o­gy (HEAT) Conference
Con­venors: Wim Van Daele (UiA), Hei­di Fjeld (UiO), Jelle Wouters (RTC), and Ele­na Neri (UiA)
Durham Uni­ver­si­ty (UK) April 23–24, 2025.

Abstract of max­i­mum 250 words via the Abstract Man­age­ment Por­tal at lat­est by 13 Jan­u­ary 2025. The web­site includes guid­ance on how to select the pan­el and to sub­mit your abstract. We look for­ward to receiv­ing your abstracts.

Pan­el Abstract:
The con­cepts of One Health, Plan­e­tary Health, and Eco-Health fore­ground the depen­den­cy of human health on the health of the envi­ron­ment. In sci­en­tif­ic prac­tice, these con­cepts tend to focus most­ly on the sci­en­tif­ic bio­log­i­cal and tan­gi­ble social aspects of the inter­de­pen­den­cies between the human and non-human aspects of health, neglect­ing the role played by intan­gi­ble and invis­i­ble oth­er-than-human enti­ties. Hence, we adopt the notion of “more-than-human health” to enhance atten­tive­ness to dif­fer­ent onto­log­i­cal and relat­ed (micro)biosocial prac­tices of human and oth­er-than-human health and well-being across the world.
This pan­el invites con­tri­bu­tions that explore com­plex inter­de­pen­den­cies and entan­gle­ments between human beings and visible/tangible and invisible/intangible oth­er-than human enti­ties that in their entan­gle­ment shape more-than-human health. We invite inter­dis­ci­pli­nary ori­ent­ed papers that exam­ine the (micro)biosocial con­nec­tions between invis­i­ble and (sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly made) vis­i­ble aspects in the more-than-human inter­de­pen­dent prac­tice of craft­ing health and well­be­ing across dif­fer­ent sit­u­a­tions and ontolo­gies. We wel­come par­tic­u­lar­ly papers that attest to the sit­u­at­ed (micro)biosocialities with­in these onto­log­i­cal prac­tices in more-than-human health. This can include, but is not lim­it­ed to, papers explor­ing entan­gle­ments between:

-rit­u­al prac­tices and microbiomes
‑Cos­mol­o­gy, cli­mate change, and chang­ing health practices
‑Super­nat­ur­al enti­ties, ani­mals, and microbiomes
‑Epi­ge­net­ics, stress and food environments

and more under­ex­plored interdependencies…

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CfP for the pan­el “Refram­ing Anthro­pol­o­gy for Plan­e­tary Health: Engag­ing new think­ing on the mat­ter, process­es and dynam­ics of health-envi­ron­ment relations”
Health, Envi­ron­ment and Anthro­pol­o­gy (HEAT) Con­fer­ence at Durham University
23–24 April 2025
The call for abstracts is open until 13 January

Abstract:
As the world becomes hot­ter and more pol­lut­ed, the rela­tions between human health and envi­ron­men­tal harms reframe anthro­po­log­i­cal ways of think­ing and doing, bring­ing the domains of med­ical and envi­ron­men­tal anthro­pol­o­gy into align­ment. From the mount­ing bur­dens of dif­fi­cult-to-notice chem­i­cal expo­sures to the increased risk of extreme weath­er events, the envi­ron­men­tal con­di­tions of health, well­ness, and live­abil­i­ty is shift­ing empir­i­cal, con­cep­tu­al and method­olog­i­cal atten­tions for anthro­pol­o­gy (Brown and Nad­ing 2019; Kirk­sey 2014; See­berg et al. 2020) with increas­ing con­cern for con­t­a­m­i­nant flows (Balles­tero 2019; Bond 2021; Krause 2017; Libo­iron 2021) and their con­se­quences for envi­ron­men­tal care and reme­di­a­tion (Green 2024; Papadopou­los et al. 2023). Despite advances, anthro­pol­o­gists remain divid­ed on whether their entry or end­points are ail­ing human bod­ies or ail­ing ecolo­gies, thus we ask, how can we attend to the kinds of phe­nom­e­na, activ­i­ties and process­es that pull body-ecol­o­gy rela­tions into relief? While the mat­ter of bod­ies (human and oth­er-than-human) still remain at the nexus of chang­ing envi­ron­ments and cli­mates, what gains can we make from turn­ing atten­tion to the actu­al­ly exist­ing process­es which medi­ate bod­ies and envi­ron­ments e.g. metab­o­lism, kinet­ics, ther­mo­dy­nam­ics and more? What kinds of method­olog­i­cal and con­cep­tu­al trac­tion do they pro­vide? Anchored in anthro­po­log­i­cal com­mit­ments to non-reduc­tion­ist notic­ing of human and oth­er-than-human worlds (Bubandt et al. 2024), this pan­el invites new think­ing, exper­i­men­ta­tion and explo­ration of medi­at­ing process­es as dis­tinct from mat­ter, sub­stance and bod­ies. Our aim is to explore the cur­rent method­olog­i­cal and empir­i­cal shifts upon which anthro­pol­o­gists are stag­ing inter­ro­ga­tions of health-envi­ron­ment relations.

Pan­el abstracts must be sub­mit­ted via the con­fer­ence man­age­ment system. 

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CfP for a pan­el on “Refram­ing Anthro­pol­o­gy for Plan­e­tary Health: Engag­ing new think­ing on the mat­ter, process­es and dynam­ics of health-envi­ron­ment relations”
HEAT
Durham
April 2025
The call for abstracts is open until 13 January

Pan­el abstracts must be sub­mit­ted via the con­fer­ence man­age­ment sys­tem. The call for abstracts is open until 13 January!

Abstract:
As the world becomes hot­ter and more pol­lut­ed, the rela­tions between human health and envi­ron­men­tal harms reframe anthro­po­log­i­cal ways of think­ing and doing, bring­ing the domains of med­ical and envi­ron­men­tal anthro­pol­o­gy into align­ment. From the mount­ing bur­dens of dif­fi­cult-to-notice chem­i­cal expo­sures to the increased risk of extreme weath­er events, the envi­ron­men­tal con­di­tions of health, well­ness, and live­abil­i­ty is shift­ing empir­i­cal, con­cep­tu­al and method­olog­i­cal atten­tions for anthro­pol­o­gy (Brown and Nad­ing 2019; Kirk­sey 2014; See­berg et al. 2020) with increas­ing con­cern for con­t­a­m­i­nant flows (Balles­tero 2019; Bond 2021; Krause 2017; Libo­iron 2021) and their con­se­quences for envi­ron­men­tal care and reme­di­a­tion (Green 2024; Papadopou­los et al. 2023). Despite advances, anthro­pol­o­gists remain divid­ed on whether their entry or end­points are ail­ing human bod­ies or ail­ing ecolo­gies, thus we ask, how can we attend to the kinds of phe­nom­e­na, activ­i­ties and process­es that pull body-ecol­o­gy rela­tions into relief? While the mat­ter of bod­ies (human and oth­er-than-human) still remain at the nexus of chang­ing envi­ron­ments and cli­mates, what gains can we make from turn­ing atten­tion to the actu­al­ly exist­ing process­es which medi­ate bod­ies and envi­ron­ments e.g. metab­o­lism, kinet­ics, ther­mo­dy­nam­ics and more? What kinds of method­olog­i­cal and con­cep­tu­al trac­tion do they pro­vide? Anchored in anthro­po­log­i­cal com­mit­ments to non-reduc­tion­ist notic­ing of human and oth­er-than-human worlds (Bubandt et al. 2024), this pan­el invites new think­ing, exper­i­men­ta­tion and explo­ration of medi­at­ing process­es as dis­tinct from mat­ter, sub­stance and bod­ies. Our aim is to explore the cur­rent method­olog­i­cal and empir­i­cal shifts upon which anthro­pol­o­gists are stag­ing inter­ro­ga­tions of health-envi­ron­ment relations.

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CfP for a work­shop on „Bod­i­ly Prac­tices Between Indi­vid­ual Well-being and Insti­tu­tion­al Regulation“.
Orga­nized by the Ger­man Asso­ci­a­tion for Social and Cul­tur­al Anthro­pol­o­gy (DGSKA)
The dead­line for sub­mis­sion is 15th Jan­u­ary 2025.

Please send ques­tions and pro­pos­als via: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/dgska2025/p/16045

Short Abstract:
The work­shop explores bod­i­ly prac­tices at the inter­sec­tion of indi­vid­ual well-being and insti­tu­tion­al reg­u­la­tion. It focus­es on ques­tions of knowl­edge pro­duc­tion, embod­i­ment, pow­er struc­tures, and the role of reli­gious, pri­vate, or state actors in the con­struc­tion and com­mer­cial­iza­tion of com­mons. Using exam­ples such as yoga and oth­er heal­ing-ori­ent­ed prac­tices like med­i­ta­tion, Tai Chi, Sufi dance, or veg­an­ism, the work­shop high­lights the com­plex inter­con­nec­tions between indi­vid­ual bod­i­ly prac­tices, glob­al health dis­cours­es, intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty claims, and iden­ti­ty pol­i­tics. Par­tic­i­pants are invit­ed to present ethno­graph­ic case stud­ies that exam­ine these dynam­ics and the per­for­ma­tive role of such prac­tices in both local and glob­al contexts.

The pan­el will be held in Ger­man, but Eng­lish con­tri­bu­tions are most welcome

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CfP for a Pan­el on „Ethno­gra­phies of Expert Knowl­edges in Men­tal Health, Neu­ro­di­ver­gence, and Disability”
10th Ethnog­ra­phy and Qual­i­ta­tive Research con­fer­ence, the inter­na­tion­al con­fer­ence of ERQ, one of Italy’s most promi­nent jour­nals in soci­ol­o­gy and anthropology
July 10–12, 2025
Tren­to, Italy

The dead­line for sub­mit­ting abstracts is Jan­u­ary 20 

33. Ethno­gra­phies of expert knowl­edges in men­tal health, neu­ro­di­ver­gence, and disability:

Nowa­days, there has been a «dis­cur­sive expolo­sion» sur­round­ing men­tal health, dis­abil­i­ty, and neu­ro­di­ver­gence result­ing in a wide array of het­ero­ge­neous nar­ra­tives and rep­re­sen­ta­tions in pub­lic and aca­d­e­m­ic debates. Par­tic­u­lar­ly on dig­i­tal plat­forms, we wit­ness a rise in con­tent focused on «pos­i­tiv­i­ty» and the rever­sal of stig­ma. These can cer­tain­ly be seen as an incur­sion into the polit­i­cal sphere by mad/crip activism; how­ev­er, it is impor­tant to rec­og­nize how (part of) these dis­cours­es could be absorbed into a neolib­er­al frame­work. In a con­text of per­for­ma­tive and extrac­tivist log­ic, mad/crip/neurodivergent pos­i­tiv­i­ty risks becom­ing yet anoth­er tool that decrees the «sal­va­tion» of those with the resources to fit into the frame­work of «diver­si­ty» val­ori­sa­tion, while lead­ing to process­es of «mon­stri­fi­ca­tion» towards those who devi­ate from this con­struc­tion of subjectivity.

Cen­tral in oper­at­ing this dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion is the role of expert knowl­edge. Although men­tal health, dis­abil­i­ty, and neu­ro­di­ver­gence remain still framed with­in a pre­dom­i­nant­ly bio­med­ical par­a­digm, a range of tech­ni­cal fig­ures are inter­ven­ing in the con­struc­tion of cat­e­gories and the «take charge of users». An arch­i­pel­ago of expert knowl­edges – social work­ers, legal actors, tutors, edu­ca­tion­al ser­vices, (for­mer) patients who take on roles as «expert users», NGO vol­un­teers – thus inter­vene in iden­ti­ty and rela­tion­al con­struc­tions, defin­ing life tra­jec­to­ries, pro­duc­ing spaces and ser­vices that inher­ent­ly nav­i­gate the con­sti­tu­tive ambi­gu­i­ty between care and con­trol, treat­ment and neglect. Among these are the social sci­ences, both in their pro­duc­tion of knowl­edge and in pro­vid­ing tools for social care prac­tices. They con­tribute to defin­ing, iden­ti­fy­ing, clas­si­fy­ing, and quan­ti­fy­ing the users, posi­tion­ing them with­in the grids of «deserving/appropriate» vs «irrecov­er­able» patient, «reha­bil­itable» vs excluded.

The cur­rent con­fig­u­ra­tion, result­ing from the dis­man­tling of nation­al social pro­tec­tion sys­tems in the wake of aus­ter­i­ty poli­cies and the shift of respon­si­bil­i­ty to the pri­vate sec­tor, rep­re­sents only the lat­est phase in a long-stand­ing process of dif­fer­en­tial inclu­sion and exclu­sion, deeply embed­ded in the very struc­ture of social wel­fare and the State itself.

Ethno­graph­ic prac­tice high­lights pow­er struc­tures, fos­ter­ing crit­i­cal reflec­tion on the role of social work and expert knowl­edges. This approach chal­lenges estab­lished insti­tu­tions and mod­els while also sit­u­at­ing the process­es sur­round­ing care and treat­ment with­in rela­tion­ships, con­texts, and every­day tactics.

We invite con­tri­bu­tions that address men­tal health, dis­abil­i­ty, and neu­ro­di­ver­gence, with­in and beyond the care/control bina­ry. We ask what is the role of «expert knowl­edges» – con­sid­ered in their sin­gu­lar­i­ty or inter­sec­tions – in the con­struc­tion of sub­jec­tiv­i­ties, in the pro­duc­tion of vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty, and in the process­es of dis­tinc­tion and frag­men­ta­tion of the user base; and how prac­tices of sub­trac­tion or resis­tance to such devices configure.

Open ques­tions

What process­es shape the con­struc­tion of mean­ing around the cat­e­gories of vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty and fragili­ty (across dis­abil­i­ty, neu­ro­di­ver­gence, and men­tal health), and how do these cat­e­gories influ­ence social work in tak­ing charge and man­ag­ing users?
How can an ethno­graph­ic cri­tique of con­cepts such as pater­nal­ism and pietism in social wel­fare be framed, start­ing from prac­tices of care, con­trol, neglect, and treatment?
How do prac­tices of dis­tinc­tion with­in social ser­vices (broad­ly defined) emerge between the «deserv­ing» user and the «prob­lem­at­ic» user, and how do these distinctions—simultaneously prac­ti­cal, orga­ni­za­tion­al, and moral—affect the bal­ance between care and control?
How does the rela­tion­ship between fam­i­lies, pub­lic ser­vices, and care­givers con­fig­ure the every­day dynam­ics of care and con­trol with­in a con­text of poly-cri­sis and dis­man­tling the wel­fare state? How do the «third sec­tor», human­i­tar­i­an orga­ni­za­tions, and vol­un­teer­ing inter­sect in this relationship?
How do mad/crip/neurodivergent sub­jec­ti­va­tion process­es unfold, both with­in and beyond med­ical­iza­tion and the fram­ing of ser­vice users?
What impact do social inequalities—based on struc­tur­al axes of class, race, gen­der, sex­u­al­i­ties, and others—have on the ratio­nale of social ser­vices? How do these process­es influ­ence street-lev­el bureau­cra­cy prac­tices, and how do they shape sub­jec­ti­va­tion with­in these systems?
What forms of with­draw­al and detach­ment from the con­trol­ling dimen­sions of social and clin­i­cal work exist, and what pos­si­bil­i­ties do they open up?
What are the process­es of spa­tial­iza­tion of disability/neurodivergence/mental health, and how do they relate to social and clin­i­cal work? What are the geo­gra­phies of these process­es, and what do they add to our understanding?

At the link, you’ll find all the infor­ma­tion need­ed for the appli­ca­tion: https://erq-conference.soc.unitn.it/call-for-contributions/

If you have any ques­tions, please don’t hes­i­tate to reach out: fabio.bertoni@ics.ulisboa.pt and/or luca.sterchele@unito.it

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Call for papers in the „Med­ical Cri­tique in Hash­tags? Chron­ic Health Con­di­tions on Social Media” at the STS-Hub
Berlin
11–14.03.2025
Dead­line: 31.10.2024

The aim of the pan­el to dis­cuss the role of social media as a plat­form for gen­er­at­ing aware­ness and form­ing inter­est groups around med­ical cri­tique. In par­tic­u­lar, the pan­el wants to explore chron­ic health con­di­tions that receive inad­e­quate atten­tion with­in the estab­lished (bio)medical sys­tem, such as ADHD and autism in women, endometrio­sis, ME/CFS, and/or Long COVID. 

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Revi­tal­iz­ing Applied Anthropology
85th Annu­al Meeting
March 25–29, 2025
Hilton Port­land Down­town Port­land, OR

The SfAA Annu­al Meet­ing pro­vides an invalu­able oppor­tu­ni­ty for schol­ars, prac­tic­ing social sci­en­tists, and stu­dents from a vari­ety of dis­ci­plines and orga­ni­za­tions to dis­cuss their work and brain­storm for the future. It is more than just a con­fer­ence: it’s a rich place to trade ideas, meth­ods, and prac­ti­cal solu­tions, as well as enter the life­world of oth­er pro­fes­sion­als. SfAA mem­bers come from a vari­ety of dis­ci­plines — anthro­pol­o­gy, soci­ol­o­gy, eco­nom­ics, busi­ness, plan­ning, med­i­cine, nurs­ing, law, and oth­er relat­ed social/behavioral sci­ences. Make 2025 the year you’ll spend a few days pre­sent­ing, learn­ing, and net­work­ing in Port­land, OR, with the SfAA.

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